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This January is the best January of all the Januarys.

So January snuck up and became like, my favorite month in
the history of the universe. Which is crazy, because nobody expects that from a
January. But there it is. January 2017 is my cold gray month of ultimate
happiness. Let’s review what has happened thus far.

1-I’ve
already lost almost 9 pounds.

I mean, not a bad start, yeah? Okay so for
fairness sake, I’ll admit the super gross fact that I started January at my
highest non-pregnancy related weight since the first time I started losing
weight, back in 2010.I started January
at 167.1, when my highest healthy weight based on BMI is 155.* So I’ve still got some way to go, but I’m
pretty sure I have never IN MY ENTIRE LIFElost 9 pounds in one month. Including months wherein I birthed an 8
pound child. Somehow, that never seemed to work out. Go Atkins. You deserve a
medal.

2-Husband
finished his first novel.

This is a fun for me, because, as I am the
person who lives in his house, I am the one who gets to read his chapters the
moment they’re finished. And he started this book in like September, so I am
very happy to have come to the conclusion of their story. Even though it made
me cry. Which made me feel dumb because I hate crying. Which made husband dance
around like a leprechaun that he used words to make me have feelings I didn’t
want to have. OH LIKE THAT’S SO HARD, GEEZ.

When we first met and I learned he was a
writer, I was… not a happy person. It meant there was something else that might
impact my ability to like or respect him. I mean, if he wanted to be a writer
and he was, say, really bad at it, or even just blandly mediocre at it, I
couldn’t see how I could manage to spend my whole life with him. I’m not that
good at patronizing. And most jobs wouldn’t cause that. If he wanted to be a
teacher, or a… I don’t know, marketing director, he would just need to be good
enough at his job to keep bringing home a paycheck. But to spend my whole life
stroking the ego of some delicate artiste? Um thanks I’d rather not. Turns out,
praise the almighty Jebus**, he’s actually a super talented writer. And his ego
can totally handle criticism when it comes. So my life is not a tortured one.

3-I paid off my Master’s Degree!

Unfortunately this does not mean that we
are completely out of debt, but it means we are down to the last one, which is
big, which is Biola, and seeing as we are renewing our commitment to hard cold
budgeting, I’m hoping to see DEBT FREE show up as soon as possible.

4-Our
New Addition becomes a PERMANENT Addition on February 9!

Sure, it’s in February. But we finally got
the news about it yesterday, which was January, and I’m thinking this just
means February might be AN EVEN MORE AWESOME MONTH. Man, 2017 is the BEST.

Anyhoosit, after such a long wait, such a long period of being given dates, and
then seeing those dates pass by without a returned phone call, with nothing but
crickets, we finally FINALLY have the court date for the finalization of our
adoption. Which is like, amazing. I can’t believe it’s here. 2 years ago I met
her. 2 years ago I texted my husband saying I just met our new daughter. Aaaand
some people figured I’d lost my mind. Granted, I probably sounded crazy. But
now she’s been living with us for 18 months, and on February9, she becomes officially ours. SO WHO’S
CRAZY NOW?!? HA. Do not doubt when Jesus tells me things. Because he does, and
I was right. Just like in the Bible.

Rock on, January. Rock. The heck. ON.

Now I know a good portion of the world is screaming and
protesting and expecting the apocalypse, and sure, this is a time of, shall we
say, Limited Civil Discourse. I know it feels bad and gross outside, and that
it seems like all the humans hate all the other humans. But an older and wiser
woman than myself once told me something that I’ve been thinking a lot about
now. She said she used to be obsessed with politics. She watched all the
different cable news channels, and sometimes just because she thought they were
morons, and she wanted to hear what the morons had to say. And then in her
fifties she realized: None of this was helping her life. None of this was
pushing her to become a better person. None of this helped her family, or her
job, or her friends. So she turned off the news. She ignored the politics. She
focused on what she could control in life, and did her best at that. And I’m
thinking now in my older and wiser 30s, that maybe she was onto something. Don’t
watch the news. Don’t click on the post. Ignore it until the media realizes we
don’t want to read about constant hatred and name calling all day every day.
And maybe, if we can show them we’ve stopped caring, people will stop the
doing.

I mean, or whatever. That’s my plan. But my month is rocking
the freakin HOUSE, so what do I know.

Peace out friends, happy happy happy Friday!!

*I'm sorry. I like numbers. I like calculations and percentages. I getting excited about doing taxes, just because it's like, a fun look at how our year went. Because it takes a Weirdo to raise a Weirdo.

**Simpsons, guys, chill. I only praise the real Jesus when I
don’t have my tongue pressed into my cheek.

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I found your blog on our local homeschooling page and I have to tell you, I've giggled at every post I've read! You crack me up, and get me talking to my screen, "Yep! I know how you feel!" So glad to hear about your FABULOUS January!

I'm a wife and a homeschool mom. I have a super great husband and four of the strangest, most adorable children I've ever personally had the pleasure of meeting. I work with kids with Autism. And I really, really love Jesus. I'm here to share some of that journey, the funny stories, the lessons learned, and all the craziness that comes along the way!